Re: Explaining sister's divorce to my boys
- From: Merle Finch <merle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:00:41 -0400
On 24 Oct 2005 12:34:26 -0700, "annie" <annesmithjunkmail@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>I would love to hear some thoughts on how to explain my sister's
>divorce to my 2 older sons (ages 9 and 7). We aren't very close to
>my sister's family, so it won't have much of an effect on them
>personally, but we will be seeing my sister and niece (also 9) on
>Thanksgiving and I want to talk to them about what is/is not
>appropriate to say to them. My 9 year old is very compassionate and I
>know his first thoughts are going to be for his cousin and he's going
>to want to do something to make her feel better. I'd like to have
>some ideas ready to suggest.
>
>I also want to choose my words carefully so that there's assurance
>that this won't happen to our family, so any suggestions on how to
>communicate that would be great.
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Annie
My advice is to leave them alone. They're kids. Let them be kids. If
they say something inappropriate, discuss it with them later
privately. I think we're putting entirely too much burden on our
children to behave like tiny socially-conscious, politically-correct
adults and that is not their responsibility. They're responsible for
learning and growing freely and learning from their role models--us.
Good luck, whatever you decide.
.
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